Ntrn Chck
@ntrnchck.bsky.social
Medical scientist ☢️⚕️, nature lover🐦🦢
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My latest post:
"Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness"
medium.com/@deonandan/c...
"Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness"
medium.com/@deonandan/c...
Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness
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medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My latest post:
"Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness"
medium.com/@deonandan/c...
"Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness"
medium.com/@deonandan/c...
Lol!! "Low prices are hurting my bottom line. This is why this is a good thing for me" 😂😂
The desperate arguments from a dying industry. I notice they don't mention what will actually happen to the oilsands when (not if) prices keep falling and get below $50.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli
The desperate arguments from a dying industry. I notice they don't mention what will actually happen to the oilsands when (not if) prices keep falling and get below $50.
#cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli
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🇨🇦 LOW OIL PRICES HURTING OIL SECTOR -- CANADA HAS A FEW ADVANTAGES 🇨🇦
Oil prices fell (from $70 to <$60) as #OPEC flooded the market. This is triggering #layoffs (Imperial Oil) and #SpendingCuts.
But analysts say Canadian producers are buoyed by key advantages.
Paula Duhatschek, CBC
#CdnEcon
🇨🇦 LOW OIL PRICES HURTING OIL SECTOR -- CANADA HAS A FEW ADVANTAGES 🇨🇦
Oil prices fell (from $70 to <$60) as #OPEC flooded the market. This is triggering #layoffs (Imperial Oil) and #SpendingCuts.
But analysts say Canadian producers are buoyed by key advantages.
Paula Duhatschek, CBC
#CdnEcon
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Former PC deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk arrived at Elections Alberta’s Edmonton office Tuesday with 61 boxes of petition forms.
Who’s laughing now? @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
Who’s laughing now? @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
‘Forever Canadian’ Results Shock the UCP Government | The Tyee
Thomas Lukaszuk delivers petitions signed by over 456,000 citizens, upsetting separatist referendum plans.
thetyee.ca
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
So I feel pretty good about penalties in soccer now... Ends the game in a way that no one is happy with, but at least the game is over
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
So I feel pretty good about penalties in soccer now... Ends the game in a way that no one is happy with, but at least the game is over
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Whoa, amazing!!! Video of a meteor striking a mountain in the town of #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada. Impact on Oct 27 2027, around 1am local time. Video captured by the webcam at the Revelstoke Railway Museum @virtualrailfan.bsky.social
#astronomy #meteor #bc
#astronomy #meteor #bc
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Whoa, amazing!!! Video of a meteor striking a mountain in the town of #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada. Impact on Oct 27 2027, around 1am local time. Video captured by the webcam at the Revelstoke Railway Museum @virtualrailfan.bsky.social
#astronomy #meteor #bc
#astronomy #meteor #bc
I love Halloween! People get so creative 😂 10/10 no notes.
☠️🎃☠️🎃
☠️🎃☠️🎃
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
October 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I love Halloween! People get so creative 😂 10/10 no notes.
☠️🎃☠️🎃
☠️🎃☠️🎃
Again, I ask: who would buy this oil, for how long, and at what price? If the numbers made sense, companies would be lining up, even with environmental and regulatory hurdles. The world is moving to renewals and energy independence, companies are doing the math #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #environment
Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past #Alberta
Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past - Canada News
Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals.
www.castanet.net
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Again, I ask: who would buy this oil, for how long, and at what price? If the numbers made sense, companies would be lining up, even with environmental and regulatory hurdles. The world is moving to renewals and energy independence, companies are doing the math #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #environment
hahahahaha
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millions living in space in 2 decades??
hahahahaha
He should go first and report back after 5-10 yrs
Also, good reminder to ditch Amazon and buy Canadian, buy local, etc.
hahahahaha
millions living in space in 2 decades??
hahahahaha
He should go first and report back after 5-10 yrs
Also, good reminder to ditch Amazon and buy Canadian, buy local, etc.
Lunacy. tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...
Jeff Bezos Says He Doesn't Understand Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'—Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space'
Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he "doesn't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now." Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair...
tech.yahoo.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
hahahahaha
hahahahaha
millions living in space in 2 decades??
hahahahaha
He should go first and report back after 5-10 yrs
Also, good reminder to ditch Amazon and buy Canadian, buy local, etc.
hahahahaha
millions living in space in 2 decades??
hahahahaha
He should go first and report back after 5-10 yrs
Also, good reminder to ditch Amazon and buy Canadian, buy local, etc.
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
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The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
Tax👏🏽the👏🏽rich👏🏽 I hope we can all admit now that trickledown economics doesn't work for most folks in society. The rich will keep their $$ and will not part with it until you make them. "Oh no, but they will leave for another city/country" If they leave, they weren't contributing that much anyways🤷🏽♀️
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Tax👏🏽the👏🏽rich👏🏽 I hope we can all admit now that trickledown economics doesn't work for most folks in society. The rich will keep their $$ and will not part with it until you make them. "Oh no, but they will leave for another city/country" If they leave, they weren't contributing that much anyways🤷🏽♀️
Why are they not required to do more to prevent things like these??? 🤬🤬💔💔
#bcpoli #environment #whales
#bcpoli #environment #whales
A humpback calf with a deep gash near its dorsal fin has been identified as the whale struck by a high-speed ferry off Vancouver.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Calf with deep gash identified as humpback struck by ferry off Vancouver | CBC News
"Given the seriousness of the injury, it will be important to monitor the animal’s healing progress," a DFO spokesperson said.
www.cbc.ca
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Why are they not required to do more to prevent things like these??? 🤬🤬💔💔
#bcpoli #environment #whales
#bcpoli #environment #whales
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This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.
US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
Block on sight.
Protect your digital space.
Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.
The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
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It took just 15 years to completely transform transportation in China:
🚗 E-cars: 60% (v 1% in 2010)
🚌 E-buses: 95% (1%)
🛵 E-scooters: 99% (30%)
🛺 E-three-wheelers: 99% (40%)
🚄 High-speed rail: 45,000 km (v 6,000 km in 2010)
Unprecedented speed & scale — a transport revolution in real time. ⚡ #EVs
🚗 E-cars: 60% (v 1% in 2010)
🚌 E-buses: 95% (1%)
🛵 E-scooters: 99% (30%)
🛺 E-three-wheelers: 99% (40%)
🚄 High-speed rail: 45,000 km (v 6,000 km in 2010)
Unprecedented speed & scale — a transport revolution in real time. ⚡ #EVs
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
It took just 15 years to completely transform transportation in China:
🚗 E-cars: 60% (v 1% in 2010)
🚌 E-buses: 95% (1%)
🛵 E-scooters: 99% (30%)
🛺 E-three-wheelers: 99% (40%)
🚄 High-speed rail: 45,000 km (v 6,000 km in 2010)
Unprecedented speed & scale — a transport revolution in real time. ⚡ #EVs
🚗 E-cars: 60% (v 1% in 2010)
🚌 E-buses: 95% (1%)
🛵 E-scooters: 99% (30%)
🛺 E-three-wheelers: 99% (40%)
🚄 High-speed rail: 45,000 km (v 6,000 km in 2010)
Unprecedented speed & scale — a transport revolution in real time. ⚡ #EVs
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The petition to demand funding for biomedical research for Long COVID in Children is up to 484 signatures, only 16 more signatures needed and it can be presented at the House of Commmons!
Please sign the the petition today:
www.change.org/p/demand-fed...
Please sign the the petition today:
www.change.org/p/demand-fed...
Sign the Petition
Demand Federal Action on Biomedical Care for Children Living with Long COVID
www.change.org
October 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The petition to demand funding for biomedical research for Long COVID in Children is up to 484 signatures, only 16 more signatures needed and it can be presented at the House of Commmons!
Please sign the the petition today:
www.change.org/p/demand-fed...
Please sign the the petition today:
www.change.org/p/demand-fed...
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Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.